Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] libsas fixes for 3.4-rc4 | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:28:56 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 15:29 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > These patches, save for the new "scsi: fix eh wakeup (scsi_schedule_eh > vs scsi_restart_operations)" and "Revert "[SCSI] libsas: fix sas port > naming", were all originally posted before the merge > window opened, and have also appeared in -next for the same timeframe. > > The commit dates are not that aged (9 days old) because they were > rebased out of larger set of updates that were pending for 3.4. > > There is a mix of pure regression fixes and fixes for long-standing bugs > in libsas. Some of the long-standing bug fixes are made worse / easier > to trigger by the new async error handling scheme. > > The largest patch in the series is "libata, libsas: introduce sched_eh > and end_eh port ops" it has been on the list since March 10th. > > Jack Wang has independently tested this set with pm8001 and reports > success. [1] > > Apologies if scsi-rc-fixes was in the process of picking these up. With > -rc4 looming I lost my nerve and pulled the trigger.
Right, so as a point of process, these are SCSI fixes and are supposed to be going through the SCSI tree. The only urgent one is the revert; I still have outstanding questions about some of the others.
We're at least 3 weeks away from 3.4 (and that's only if -rc6 is final), so there's time to address all of this via the usual process.
James
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